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Departments, agencies, bureaus, and offices that perform the functions of the government.

Bureaucracy

Created by Congress to undertake independent commercial enterprises. Presumably they perform a service that the private sector has been unable to perform adequately.

Government corporations

employee of a federal government or of a firm supplying the government who reports waste, mismanagement, and/or fraud by government agency or contractor.

Whistle-blowers

theory describing how some regulated industries come to benefit from government regulation and how some regulatory commissions come to represent the industries they are supposed to regulate rather than representing the people.

Capture theory of regulation

lifting of the government rules and bureaucratic supervision from business and professional activity.

Deregulation

- (passed in 1966) requires agencies to allow citizens (and the media) to inspect all public records, with some exceptions for intelligence, current criminal investigations, and personal actions.

Freedom of Information Act

Services performed by legislators and their staffs on behalf of
individual constituents.

Casework

Mutually supportive relationship among interest groups, government agencies, and legislative committees with jurisdiction over a specific policy area

Iron triangle

The movement of individuals from government positions to jobs in the private sector, using experience, knowledge, and contacts they aquired in government employment.

Revolving Doors

These groups/agencies regulate a sector of society--transportation, communication,banking, labor relations.

Independent regulatory commissions

Regulates the nation's monetary policy and credit conditions, supervises and regulates banking activity, and provides various services to banks.